Who knew Almost Human would turn out to be a blueprint for technology?

DARPA has apparently succeeded in making a self-guided bullet.

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The U.S. military said this week it has made great progress in its effort to develop a self-steering bullet. In February, the "smart bullets" -- .50-caliber projectiles equipped with optical sensors -- passed their most successful round of live-fire tests to date, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. In the tests, an experienced marksman "repeatedly hit moving and evading targets," a DARPA statement said. "Additionally," the statement said, "a novice shooter using the system for the first time hit a moving target." In other words, now you don't even have to be a good shot to hit the mark.

Okay, so it's not quite at the level of the bullet shown in one episode I saw of Almost Human, which was fired from a sniper rifle as I recall, but it's getting pretty darn close. Should be interesting to see if they can produce similar items for smaller caliber weaponry. Something like this would, from my limited understanding of the technology involved, probably completely change the face of modern warfare in a way similar to the advent of drone technology. Fire on an enemy, and even if he dodges, it doesn't matter; the bullet can change course in midair to hit him anyway. Goodbye days of needing to be a sharpshooter to hit your targets.

Seriously though, this is rather scary to contemplate. Could you imagine if this sort of ammunition became widely available? Modern forensic science in relation to weaponry would become practically obsolete; if you can't determine a trajectory for a round, how can you possibly hope to determine where it came from? And if you can't determine that, you have virtually no hope of determining who might have fired the round. It's just scary to think about.

via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1HQVJFs